Like more and more associated with Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), Bakker is “gay-affirming.” This means that he takes the position homosexuality, which Biblically is the unrepentant practice of the sin of sexual immorality with a member of the same sex, is not sin and is a viable lifestyle for the Christian.

Bakker has been publicly airing criticism about some of my writings attempting to correct his wrong view of homosexuality, which is fine as far as I’m concerned. However, it appears to me that Bakker plays the martyr in his insinuations that I am “attacking” him personally in a loveless manner, when it’s quite clear I am only criticizing his unbiblical position.

He even contacted someone via Twitter whom I barely know and said he wanted to talk with me. Really; that’s odd, Bakker has yet to attempt to do so. But e.g. Bakker’s friend Tony Jones had no trouble contacting me, nor has his pastor Doug Pagitt, whom I spoken with now on a few occasions.

Bakker has also taken issue with Chris Rosebrough, whom he publicly accused of not having his facts straight as well as not telling the truth about Bakker. Well, Chris happens to be a friend of mine and I know he has tried to contact Bakker, but he has blocked Chris from doing so:

The truth is, both myself and Jay Bakker are pastor-teachers who minister in the very public arena of the Internet as does Chris Rosebrough e.g. as an apologist along with me at Christian Research Net, on his PCR program and with A Little Leaven. So our teachings are fair game and none of us is under any Biblical mandate requiring that we must talk with each other prior to issuing a public rebuke.

However, at the same time, it is rather disingenuous of Bakker to make it appear that we are not willing to speak with him.